Global CO2 Emissions Are Rising in 2017 After Three-Year ‘Plateau’

“Over the past three years, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have remained relatively flat. However, early estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) using preliminary data suggest that this is likely to change in 2017 with global emissions set to grow by around two percent, albeit with some uncertainties.

“Hopes that global emissions had peaked during the past three years were likely premature. However, GCP researchers say that global emissions are unlikely to return to the high growth rates seen during the 2000s. They argue that it is more likely that emissions over the next few years will plateau or only grow slightly, as countries implement their commitments under the Paris agreement.

2017 emissions likely to increase

“The GCP is a group of international researchers who assess both sources and sinks of carbon. It has published an…

The macho men who make the nuclear killing decisions – theme for February 2018

These are the macho men who are deciding how to spend the American tax-payers’ $trillions that are not being spent on health, education, essential services, essential welfare, environment .

And this is their palace – the Pentagon, far away from the ordinary things of ordinary lives.

America is the worst – but the same scenario is being played out by the macho men in Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Britain, and of course, North Korea.

Working people pay for this – with their taxes.

And – the insanity of the system is that very many of those working people depend on the killing machine for their jobs – making a living now, in the service of the system that will kill their children.

For many macho men – the satisfaction of knowing that they can kill millions of “enemy” children, women and men is apparently worth it all. A strange satisfaction -for, even if they survive themselves – what will victory really look like?

Is it not time that women took over the decision making?

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